Night sky tonight in Istanbul
The night of Sunday 18 October to Monday 19 October 2026
At a glance
Sunset 18:16, properly dark from 19:20, getting light from 06:18, sunrise 07:22 (local time).
The Moon is 52 per cent lit and waxing, setting at 23:43. It is in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
The planets
- Jupiter: visible from 03:00 to 06:10, highest at 06:10 in the southeast, 46° up, near Regulus. Magnitude −1.8.
- Saturn: visible from 19:20 to 05:00, highest at 00:00 in the south, 51° up. Magnitude 0.4.
- Mars: visible from 02:10 to 06:10, highest at 06:10 in the southeast, 56° up. Magnitude 1.0.
Not visible: Mercury, Venus (too close to the Sun or not up in the dark).
ISS and space stations
- ISS: Monday 19 October, 05:57 to 06:01, from the northwest to the northeast, up to 38°
- ISS: Tuesday 20 October, 05:12 to 05:14, from the northeast to the northeast, up to 27°
- ISS: Wednesday 21 October, 06:00 to 06:03, from the northwest to the northeast, up to 21°
Visible passes this night and the next two: the station lit by the Sun, the sky dark. It glides across the sky as a bright steady point, without blinking.
High in the sky at 10 pm
This week in the sky
- Comet 161P/Hartley-IRAS at its brightest: About magnitude 9.7: at the limit of binoculars, better in a telescope
- Orionids: peak: Up to 20 meteors an hour under an ideally dark sky. The Moon is 78 per cent lit then and drowns the fainter ones.